Just joined a new company and there’s a few things I’ve noticed about my boss that may or may not be red flags but gets a bit irritating when I think more about it:
1) When I first joined, he told me to set calls with people who I should know. But he said during those calls, just take the time to listen but don’t take everything they say as the truth because apparently everyone in the company is “political.”
And by that, he means to say that teams are usually against each other pushing their own agenda and may push back on our teams ideas. But when I had calls with them, they didn’t seem like they were really as “political” as he said, so I’m starting to think he’s the problem.
2) There was another employee there with a similar name to me. Let’s pretend my name is Elizabeth Katelyn, but I go by Kate. There’s someone there named Katerina. But she goes by Rina. But even if she goes by Rina, my boss calls her Kate. So when I joined and said I go by Kate, he said can you go by other name, there’s already someone in our team named Kate. So I decided to go by my other name Elizabeth, which I never use. It’s no big deal but when I think more about it, it just bothers me that he would request it. Is it a weird thing to be upset about?
3) He keeps telling us in calls to make sure we have work life balance and to not follow him, who works beyond normal hours. I work a different time zone but we have significant overlap (4hours-6hours). I sometimes work 11-8pm in case I need to have calls with him. That’s the latest I would go, unless there’s pre-set meetings then I just move my schedule around. This one day, I started working 8AM. We had a call that afternoon to go through a dashboard I created and fixed some things post call. He then messaged me at 10PM asking me to jump on a call because he wants to fix the dashboard. I didn’t answer of course. But I’m not the only one he does this to. It was 12PM my time and 12midnight for my team member, Rina. I was on a call with my boss and he saw Rina became online and he said oh, it’s late for her but maybe let’s pull her in. Then proceeds to call her into our chat.
Anyway, just needed to rant a bit really but would love to know your thoughts too.